Italian heartthrob Sal Gabrini has a reputation as a hardnosed former cop who is now a hardnosed wealthy businessman who will fight to the death for what he believes in. If his family is threatened, or his business compromised, he will not rest until payback is complete and final. But even hard men like Sal have a soft spot. His soft spot is Gemma.Gemma Jones, his beautiful African-American girlfriend, is a woman who speaks her own mind, runs her own business, and refuses to be the female who looks the other way. Despite rumors of Sal’s mob connections, despite his volatile temper and domineering personality, despite the feisty women from his past, Gemma demands respect from him and he gives it to her. And together their long-distance relationship grows closer and closer.But when Sal is double-crossed by men who are supposed to be working for him, and the blowback blows back on Gemma herself, he knows he has to restore order in his life before Gemma leaves him, and he has no life to restore.In an explosive new interracial romance from bestselling author Mallory Monroe, Sal Gabrini finds that for all of his bravado and domination, his need to feel a woman’s touch may prove to be his greatest strength, and his greatest weakness.
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